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Reception at child's school comments regarding parking blue badge

Hi.. I have a blue badge and parking within school is permitted for these. My daughter left this school a few years back. Beforehand on one occasion I buzzed to be let into school car park due to having the blue badge one reception member told her it's a staff car park I shouldn't use it. Yet for 3 plus years I had she knew it was me and this staff member isn't new either or wasn't. Now why she had to tell my daughter that I don't know I questioned it at the time and was dismissed with baffle. This Monday just gone. My son is now in his first year at the school I was waiting to be answered at the gate intercom. My son could see me and impatiently was trying to get receptions attention. Unfortunately for him he was told again knowing it was me and him that it's a staff car park and they do me a favour help me out in letting me use it.. Which with attitude I was repeated the above too by the receptionist in question, when I took a sad despondent boy back into the office to find out why he thinks I shouldn't use the car park its wrong.
Is there any formal disability right I can quote in dealing with this as the headteacher is calling it a clash of personalities. Whereas this person has repeatedly chastised both my children for me using the car park via Blue badge
Is there any formal disability right I can quote in dealing with this as the headteacher is calling it a clash of personalities. Whereas this person has repeatedly chastised both my children for me using the car park via Blue badge
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www.emmawestcounselling.co.uk
Also, the discrimination is a risk of denying your son access to schooling, since he needs dropping and collecting just as others do, but it is being made "difficult or impossible "
This is to protect the children.
All gates are locked at this time to achieve this. In fact if you do manage to get in before 8.30 and 2.45 you are effectively on 'lock down' until the gates are reopened.
To me this is sensible as you are always going to get someone doing silly things with a car during these times.
Double yellow lines have been installed all around the school so as to stop parents blocking the roads.
Our local supermarket has agreed that parents can park there free for 1 hour.
The safety of all children is paramount.
All the best.
Emma
www.emmawestcounselling.co.uk
The way this has been solved is that disabled parents and/or their disabled children would have to wait until 8.31 and 3.31 when the gates are opened to collect their child. Any disabled child that this applies to is kept inside the school until the gates are opened.